Danseuse à la marguerite (Dancer with daisy), a 1937 sculpture by Julio González, is currently displayed at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMC+) of Saint Etienne Métropole, in their temporary exhibition, “Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme” (“Twenty-four hours in the life of a woman”). This unprecedented exhibition tells the story of an imaginary and […]
L’IVAM Centre Julio González celebrates its 30th anniversary, 2019
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), considered today one of the most important modern art museums in Spain, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019. This institution, inaugurated in 1989 in the presence of Queen Sofia, opened in large part thanks to a series of important donations of the artwork and archives of Julio, Roberta and Joan […]
Conference: “Roberta Gonzalez: an artistic path forged by war”, April 15, 2019 musée de l’Armée (Paris)
In conjunction with the exhibition “Picasso et la guerre”, which opens on April 5 at the musée de l’Armée in Paris, Dr. Amanda Herold-Marme will give a conference in French entitled “Roberta Gonzalez: an artistic path forged by war”. This conference will recount the life and work of Roberta Gonzalez, an artist of French and […]
Roberta González in “Hans Hartung: the war years”, musée Zervos, Vézelay, July 14-October 15, 2018
Several works by Roberta Gonzalez are currently on display in Vézelay in the exhibition “Hans Hartung: the war years” at the Zervos Museum, organized in partnership with the Fondation Hartung-Bergman. The exhibition retraces the German painter’s work during the years of World War II. This historic time also coincides with the period when Hartung was part of […]
“Tête en profondeur”, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, May 2018-June 2019
Kanal-Centre Pompidou is a former Citroën garage in the process of becoming the premier cultural institution in Brussels. But before the momentous renovation work begins in June 2019, the vast industrial space, left in its raw state, will host works from the Pompidou Center’s collection, displayed under the title “Brut”. It is in this context […]
“Hello World”. Gonzalez at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin
« Hello World. Revising a Collection », Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, April 28-August 26, 2018 The Nationalgalerie of Berlin is currently seeking to reconceptualize its collection, largely focused on Western art, from a more global perspective. Its current exhibition « Hello World. Revising a Collection », responds to this query. Gonzalez’s “Masque de Montserrat” is featured in this temporary display. […]
“Julio Gonzalez’s Constellations: Between Representation and Abstraction”, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain), until December 31, 2018
Josep Salvado, curator at the l’IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, has reorganized the room devoted to Julio Gonzalez in the Spanish museum in “constellations”. Gonzalez’s major works dialogue with those of artists inspired by him, including compatriots like Jorge Oteiza, Andreu Alfaro and Miquel Navarro or the Americans Tony Smith or David Smith. “Julio Gonzalez’s Constellations” […]
Gonzalez and “Guernica”: Exhibition, Musée national Picasso Paris, March 27-July 29, 2018
Longtime friends and colleagues, Julio Gonzalez and Pablo Picasso participate together in the Spanish Pavilion in the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Both artists take advantage of the occasion to manifest their support for democratic Spain and their fellow Spaniards under attack. Picasso does so with his monumental mural painting, “Guernica”, and his satirical etching, […]
“Gonzalez, Picasso and Friends”, Exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (Nov. 25-April 2, 2018)
November 25, 2017 to April 2, 2018 The Gemeentemuseum (The Hague) has organized a retrospective of more than 100 works, of which the majority are being displayed for the first time in the Netherlands. This exhibition sheds new light on the artistic development of Julio González, from an artisan metal-worker in Barcelona to an avant-gardist […]
“Montserrat’s screaming head” exposed at the Pompidou Center Malaga
“Montserrat’s screaming head”, a powerful sculpture created by Julio Gonzalez in 1942, is on display at the Pompidou Center Malaga. This is part of the new hanging of their permanent collection, “Modern utopias”. The Catalan peasant woman is a favorite subject of Gonzalez’s to capture his solidarity with his countrymen and women suffering during the […]